Craig Boddington was the senior contributing editor of our modern gun and ammunition caliber dictionary. Craig was involved in the development and testing of many of these and writes from first hand experience. This dictionary was written exclusively for Wholesale Hunter with unique information found nowhere else.

GUN CALIBER DICTIONARY

Centerfire Handgun

10mm

22 TCM

25 ACP

25 NAA

30 Luger

32 ACP

32 H&R MAG

32 North American Arms

32 S&W

32 S&W Long

32 Short Colt

327 Federal Magnum

357 Magnum

357 Maximum

357 Sig

38 Colt Short

38 Long Colt

38 S&W

38 Short Colt

38 Special

38 Special +P

38 Super Automatic

380 ACP

4.6X30 Heckler & Koch

40 S&W

400 Cor-Bon

41 Colt

41 Remington Magnum

41 Special

44 Auto Mag

44 Colt

44 Rem Magnum

44 Russian

44 Special

45 ACP

45 Auto Rimmed

45 AUTO+P

45 Colt

45 Colt / 410 gauge

45 Glock Automatic Pistol (GAP)

45 Schofield

45 Winchester Magnum

454 Casull

455 Webley

460 Rowland

460 S&W Magnum

475 Linebaugh

480 Ruger

50 Action Express

500 JRH

500 S&W

500 Wyoming Express

7.62 Nagant

7.62X25mm Tokarev

7.63mm Mauser

9mm Luger

9mm Makarov

9mmX18mm Ultra Police

9X21mm

9X23mm Winchester

Centerfire Rifle

17 Hornet

17 Remington

17 Remington Fireball

204 Ruger

218 BEE

22 Hornet

22 Nosler

22-250 Remington

220 Swift

221 Remington Fireball

222 Remington

223 Remington

223 Winchester Super Short Magnum

223 Wylde

224 Valkyrie

224 Weatherby Magnum

225 Winchester

240 Weatherby Magnum

243 Winchester

243 Winchester Super Short Magnum

25 Winchester Super Short Magnum

25-06 Remington

25-20 Winchester

25-35 Winchester

250 Savage

257 Roberts

257 Weatherby Magnum

26 Nosler

260 Remington

264 Winchester Magnum

270 Weatherby Magnum

270 Winchester

270 WSM

275 Rigby

28 Nosler

The 28 Nosler is Nosler Bullets' second proprietary cartridge, following the 26 Nosler in 2015. It is based on the 26 Nosler necked up to 7mm, thus based on the 7mm Remington Ultra Magnum case shortened…which was based on the 404 Jeffery case. Case length is 2.590 inches, allowing it to be housed in standard (30-06-length) actions. The base diameter is .550-inch, with the rim slightly rebated to .543-inch. The 28 Nosler has been the most popular of the Nosler series. It is not as overbore capacity as the 7mm RUM, making it more efficient and allowing a greater variety of propellants. With a 26-inch barrel velocity of up to 3300 feet per second is possible with a 160-grain bullet, making it, as Nosler describes it, "the most powerful 7mm in the world." Nosler is the primary source for ammunition, but in addition to Nosler rifles it has been chambered in numerous custom and semi-custom rifles. — Craig Boddington